Acer Aspire V5 122P Unboxing, AMD Temash A6-1450 First Tests

The Acer Aspire V5 122P is an 11.6” sub-notebook running on an AMD Temash processor which I’ve highlighted before as being potentially interesting for mobile Windows 8 because it, theoretically, offers performance that sits between netbooks and Ultrabooks while offering very good efficiency. I’ve unboxed the Acer V5 122P and found a well-balanced, very good value touchscreen notebook that could appeal to many people looking at the sub-$500 bracket. It’s not an Ultrabook in terms of raw performance but it feels like it hits a nice sweet-spot.

Performance is indeed right in between netbook and Ultrabook levels with about HD3000-levels of graphics power (Sandy Bridge Ultrabooks in 2011/2012) and about 1/3rd the CPU performance although clock-for-clock, it’s about the same. Battery life is going to be about 3.5-4hrs on this with a 30Wh (small) battery inside although there’s an interesting extended battery port on the base of the unit.

I’ll have more for you soon after I’ve done some more detailed testing at the weekend when I plan to drop in an SSD to see how much we can get out of it. Considering that this nearer to a mobile laptop experience than an Ultrabook we’ll probably take it over to our sister site, UMPCPortal, for further testing.

Other apps to test are multitasking multithread like 7-zip, X-264 and gaming like Minecraft, Torchlight II etc.

Looking at your video, you indicated that all the tests had the CPUs running at 1 Ghz. Could you look at the Windows CPU Task manager/monitor and check if any apps turboboost CPU to 1.4 Ghz? The 40% boost would elevate performance to about the level of i3-3217u Ivy Bridge (a $200 CPU).

Thanks again and please post more apps and gaming test for the new Acer V5-122p!

It’s better if someone (Chippy?) can actually run a performance per watt at different locked frequencies.

I use Linux and I actually run a script that locks the CPU frequency, runs a CPU intensive task, averages the power consumption and then repeats for all frequencies. For an Ivy Bridge CPU, the frequency to power consumption ratio peaks and definitely takes a sharp nose dive when turbo is enabled.

No, thats not correct. Performance per watt ist far worse than a ULV Ivy Bridge. At full CPU load, a i3-3217U consumes less than 10 watts and ist more than two times fast. The A6-1460 should have a TDP of 8 watts at 1,0 GHz and 15 watts at 1,4 GHz.

I think Temash belongs to an ultra mobile category (Win 8 tablets that could be 800-100gm) but the product could be here or there! Maybe i’ll publish the review here and some Temash performance tests there. The Ultrabook and UMPC world are merging and at some point I may have to combine the two sites!